Associate Director of Psychology

P Provide Professional leadership for all psychology staff in the Clinical Network. Provide professional advice on psychological practice and providing assurance on delivery of psychological approaches Develop psychological approaches and interventions and role sot support care delivery across the clinical network. Contribute to the effective clinical and professional supervision of staff in the service, including professional appraisal and identification of CPD needs across the service. Lead on policy development and implementation of psychological service provision within the clinical network. Working with the multi-professionals leadership team to embed NSFT shared culture and values. Undertake audit, teaching and research activities, and to promote research activity within the clinical network. To ensure that arrangements are in place for the for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the clinical network. Provide a specialist clinical service directly to clients and through provision of expert advice, consultancy and supervision to professional colleagues. To work closely with the director for psychology to ensure the development and governance aims of psychological services are met, within and across clinical networks and/or other functional departments of NSFT. Lead and participate in Trust wide initiatives and projects. To initiate and implement service developments and projects within the service. To initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients and their families. To have oversight of the implementation of the trusts research plan to facilitate the appropriate participation of psychological professionals and research projects.